no drums because shit is classy and I am lazy

This song is a parody to the Austrians. Just how they talk, how they whine about everything. It basically tells you to look at the bright side of life. Lyrics: Letztens hockta wieda amoi do und haut aus über´s Lem. Jo wos ned ois so schlecht…

Zeitweis gibt’s Sochn, dasst sogst, na gibts des und zeitweis gibts Sochn de gibt’s jo gor ned. Zeitweis gibt’s Zeitn, dasst sogst, heast Zeit wird’s, dass ma in de Hapfn keman und zeit wird’s, dass ma si min Strick dahengan. Zeitn gibts…

A song that I have had for a while and never uploaded. There was always something that I didn't really like about this song... lol

I'm not gonna lie to you: this isn't one of my best. It's RPM. It happens. Try listening to "Beach". I think that one's pretty cool.

I was consciously trying to do minimalist arrangements on this album. I suppose I must have felt that two guitars and a bass were necessary here. The backing vocals came out pretty good on this one. And there's some nifty bass on verse 2.

I wrote, recorded, and mixed this in about an hour on the last day of the Challenge. It's a really basic chord progression (I think...I can't actually remember it. Something something D minor something something F something?), but I still like…

Last piece recorded for RPM. On the last day. Mostly improvised. The inspiration of last-minute panic. Pretty much how I got through college. Until I dropped out. Hey, don't judge me. I'm back in school now. Gonna get my CPA. Accounting…

I'm not one to toot my own horn, but I think I did a good job of summoning up a mellow, trippy atmosphere with a relatively minimalist arrangement (acoustic guitar, two pianos, lead vocal, and a guitar solo).

Kind of a Neil Young impression, I guess. You know what's ironic? I think this was the only song on the album I didn't use a metronome to record.

The title is borrowed from a line from an old Simpsons episode, but there is no other lyrical connection, it's just a quickly-written ditty about the excitement that accompanied my first RPM. I hope to eventually do a full band arrangement of this.

I don't write love songs very often. Because I'm not good at them. I liked the sort of bittersweet quality of this tune, though. If the RPM deadline had left me more time, I probably would have added a quick ascending bass line right before…

What lurks there, in the shadows? This song was inspired after watching the sci-fi movie: The Thing (1982)....

LR August 6th, 2007 - Peeing Contest with Carmella Bing